Chapter 451

[The Bone Golem Summoning skill evolves into Abyssal Bone Golem Summoning!]

[A new summon, the Abyssal Bone Golem, has been born!]

[Characteristic: The ultimate tanker possessing absolute physical/magical defensive power that chewed and swallowed the pressure of the Sea of Destruction, and area-of-effect control abilities using abyssal tentacles.]

[Skills, Evolution Details]

Taunt ? Abyssal Taunt : Forcibly ignores the enemy's mental resistance and draws aggro with an abyssal gravitational field.

Defensive Posture ? Absolute Defensive Posture : Reduces all damage received upon skill use by 70% and deploys an abyssal protective shield that reflects external strikes.

Blood Explosion ? Abyssal Blood Explosion : Combines dragon blood and abyssal energy to detonate. Inflicts massive damage equal to 5 times maximum health and scatters an irrecoverable abyssal corrosion curse to enemies within a radius of several kilometers.

Kung kuuung!

Dolsoe, the Abyssal Bone Golem having finished its evolution, took a heavy step.

"My…… your look is truly crazy?"

Letting out a laugh mixing astonishment and joy, Kim Minwoo tapped Dolsoe's pitch-black armor plating with a tuk-tuk.

The cold and hard texture was transmitted through his fingertips.

"I have to do a performance test. Cedric, come here."

— Did you call, Master.

"Our Dolsoe put on new clothes, so let's do a durability test. Try thrusting with full power once."

At Kim Minwoo's command, Cedric flashed his blue eye glints and readjusted his grip on his bloody spear.

The terrifying dragon strike that used to slice up the Grand Dukes of the Demon Realm condensed at the tip of the spear.

Dolsoe also bumped his fists together and activated Absolute Defensive Posture. A pitch-black abyssal protective shield swayed, wrapping around his entire body.

Kwaaaaaaang—!

Cedric's spear shot out like a thunderbolt and struck dead-center into Dolsoe's chest.

A tremendous destructive power that pushed the fog of the Inner Sea dozens of meters away in a radius from the aftermath of the explosion.

However, the sight unfolding where the dust cleared was shocking.

Kkang—!

"……!"

The bloody tip of Cedric's spear was trembling pareureu while deeply embedded into Dolsoe's abyssal armor plating.

Jjeojeok—.

Spiderweb-like cracks spread out in all directions centered on the spot where the spear blade was embedded. But that was exactly it.

The armor plating was not pierced in the end.

Even while taking that ignorant assault force's full-power strike dead-center on his chest, Dolsoe did not get pushed back even a single step, slowly blinking his bloody eye glints.

How would it have been if it was the original Dolsoe.

His massive skeleton would have burst into pieces from a single spear thrust of Cedric's, scattering bone fragments everywhere.

But now it was different.

— ……Quite hard. Even more than that Abyssal Beast.

Deep admiration was mixed in Cedric's usually dry voice.

"Is it?"

— Yes. It seems Dolsoe's existing defensive skills are combining with the physical body of the Abyssal Beast to create synergy.

Pulling out the embedded spear slowly, Cedric's eye glints shone interestingly.

"Keu……."

The corners of Kim Minwoo's mouth tore to below his ears.

An overwhelming single raw spec that lightly ignored even the transforming formations of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers. Now Kim Minwoo's legion had recovered the ultimate shield that would perfectly absorb the enemy's firepower at the front line.

"My……."

Slinging Hell Rhapsody over his shoulder with a tuk, Kim Minwoo satisfyingly looked at the dependably standing Dolsoe and the Legion Commanders.

The efficacy of the new compression was truly beyond imagination.

The trip to the Sea of Destruction that he just thought was a farming business trip.

But the harvests he fished out from there were recreating Kim Minwoo's legion into an armed group of a completely different dimension.

The fusion of a transcendent material called the Primordial Abyssal Beast and the compression skill. This meant that the corpses of the numerous monsters Kim Minwoo would obtain in the future could be used not as junk items for experience or gold conversion, but as core parts for summon evolution.

"If Dolsoe changed into this kind of size…… there's no reason it wouldn't work for the others."

Kim Minwoo's pupils flashed.

His gaze headed toward the thirty elite Dragon Tooth Soldier royal guards lined up behind Dolsoe.

An out-of-standard summon group born by fusing a thousand intermediate skeleton entities into one and the essence of a Primordial Ancient Dragon wrapping their skeletons.

They were guys who swapped classes in real-time through formless skeletons, but as the difficulty of the hunting grounds escalated, these guys were also slowly showing the limits of their firepower.

"If their specs are lacking, I just have to pour better materials onto them."

Kim Minwoo smiled and opened his inventory.

Through the cracks of the subspace opening in the empty air, materials spewing chilling magic power just by looking at them poured out consecutively and piled up on the floor of the Inner Sea.

The first to pour out were massive bones spewing pitch-black smoke, jagged teeth, and a pile of hair as stiff as steel.

They were the biological resources of the 1st-ranked Grand Duke of the Demon Realm, Baal, who was bound in the basement, drinking top-grade potions like bottled water and having his bones and teeth torn out in real-time.

Not only had he become a slave with 100 loyalty churning out elixirs, but now he was reduced to raw materials for a bone weapon factory—traces of the Grand Duke.

Add to that, Kim Minwoo did not stop his hands and piled on more materials. They were top-grade superalloy armor plates looted when robbing the Zenith Tower in the Galaxy dimension and Megacorp's state-of-the-art special fragments collected from the stratosphere.

"All Dragon Tooth Soldiers, line up."

Thirty Dragon Tooth Soldiers lined up in perfect order in front of Kim Minwoo. The pitch-black skeletons waited for their master's command while shedding death magic power.

[Activating the skill, Compression EX!]

[Targets: The biological resources of Grand Duke Baal, Megacorp's superalloy materials, 30 elite Dragon Tooth Soldiers]

Paaaaat—!

The pure death magic power of a Higher God swallowed the materials. Grand Duke Baal's bones and steel-stiff hair, and Megacorp's superalloy fragments began to crumple into a single point making bizarre friction sounds.

The heavy spiritual power of the Grand Duke and cyberpunk's precise alloy technology were compressed to the limit, transforming into the form of sticky and pitch-black essence.

As Kim Minwoo flicked his finger, that compressed essence, which was no different from a cheat code, poured down like a waterfall over the heads of the lined-up Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

Kwagagagang—!

[Transmutation begins!]

[The status of the materials and the physical compatibility of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers match!]

No matter how high the specs of the materials, if the status of the undead receiving them is low, it is bound to bounce off. But the Dragon Tooth Soldiers are a high-ranking undead troop type harboring the essence of a Primordial Ancient Dragon.

Their vessels were more than enough to receive the spiritual power of the Grand Duke and Megacorp's technological prowess.

As the essence seeped deep into their skeletons, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers' bones twisted udeudeuk and began to be reconstructed.

Baal's spiritual power settled deep in their bone marrow, and pitch-black demonic magic power steadily leaked through their eye glints. Superalloy particles stuck to the surface of their skeletons, transforming into an outer shell of steel that would not be crushed by any impact.

Jjeojeok—!

Crystals of dark red magic power grew between the Dragon Tooth Soldiers' ribs. It was a trace of the Grand Duke's essence harmonizing with their bones. The gloss of the alloy flowing along their skeletons recalled precisely machined weapons.

[Transmutation Grand Success!]

[All elite Dragon Tooth Soldiers simultaneously inherit demonic spiritual power and superalloy rigidity!]

Kim Minwoo tapped the shoulders of a newly forged Dragon Tooth Soldier. Sticky demonic magic power rose like a haze from the steel-hard skeleton.

At the hand gesture to swing it lightly, the closest Dragon Tooth Soldier slashed its Dragon Emperor dagger once.

From that single light movement, the vacuum of the Inner Sea split apart jjeok-jjeok and sparks flew.

"This means I just have to keep adding more whenever good materials come in here, right?"

Kim Minwoo twisted his mouth corners satisfyingly.

The status of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers could still grow further.

Throughout their skeletons, there was still room to accept more spiritual power and alloys.

It meant that every time he poured in materials from now on, these guys could be strengthened endlessly right up to their limits.

The efficacy of compression, which allowed him to infinitely pull up his summons if he just poured in abundant materials, was truly a cheat code itself.

'I should slowly go get the next material.'

Adjusting his grip on Hell Rhapsody, Kim Minwoo checked the final blank space in the inventory window.

The final period for unlocking the physical potential seal, the Flame of the Sun.

According to Ananke's words, that flame was sleeping in the core of a sealed dimension called the 'Tomb of the Forgotten Hearth' located at the edge of the universe.

Kim Minwoo sent a thought to Ananke through the magic power neural network connected to the underground sanctuary, but the Grand Witch's subsequent answer was unexpected.

— It's impossible right now, Lord. That tomb reveals its dimensional entrance for only a single day in 10 years. Only on the day when the stars align and the seal's latch is undone. And coincidentally, that single day arrives three days from now.

"Three days from now?"

Kim Minwoo's brow narrowed slightly, then slowly unfurled.

To think a door that opens only once in 10 years opens at exactly the necessary moment.

"I'm lucky."

As a gamer, he knew better than anyone how valuable such a coincidental timing was.

"Three days…… then I should finish some overdue homework."

His gaze slowly headed toward the Belt of the Supreme Sovereign of Death strapped to his waist.

In the past, when smashing the 2nd testing ground, the Blood Swamp, Kim Minwoo had swept up the 50,000 True Blood vampires stationed there along with their bosses, Duke Raiel and Count Camillos, entirely into the belt's subspace and brought them with him.

At the time, since the system's forced initialization, the light of annihilation, was tightening right up to his chin, he lacked both the time and materials to deploy Return of the Dead to restore their intact abilities and intelligence from life.

So, in a rush, he had just laid out Land of Death SSS, a cheap-to-maintain tin-can undead domain, forcibly stood them up, and shoved them into the belt's subspace.

"I secured a safe base camp, and material supply is smooth. I should slowly revive these guys properly."

Kim Minwoo threw open the belt's subspace without hesitation.

Kugugugugung—!

Along with a pitch-black fog, the 50,000 True Blood legion, hardened in a tin-can state, and the forms of Raiel and Camillos poured out like a waterfall onto the ash-gray earth of the Inner Sea.

In their empty pupils, there was no ego or intelligence, only the dryness of puppets bound to the strands of necromancy.

"I clearly told you in the testing ground, right? Don't forget to donate 1 liter of blood every day. If you want to earn your keep, I have to fix your bodies properly first."

Kim Minwoo scanned the heads of the lined-up True Blood clan with the tip of Hell Rhapsody and smiled.

"Activating the Resurrection Project."